Anika Albrecht of Ocean Voyages Institute, collects plastic in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on a 2020 expedition. A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating ...

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, aims to rid the world's oceans of plastic. It recently debuted a device it said collected 20,000 pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But some ...

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of ...

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage ...

Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast.

Fishing gear from just five regions could account for most of the floating plastic debris in the ‘North Pacific garbage patch’, a vast swathe of the North Pacific Ocean that holds tens of thousands of ...

A new system will be able to clear a football field every five seconds. Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean ...

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A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found. Coastal plant and animal species ...

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, aims to rid the world's oceans of plastic. It recently debuted a device it said collected 20,000 pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But some ...